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Hadar, Linor L.; Alpert, Bracha; Ariav, Tamar – Prospects, 2021
This case study explores how teacher education curriculum in a college in Israel responded to the COVID-19 outbreak. The article focuses on the clinical component of the preservice curriculum (practice teaching and methods courses). It reveals that curriculum became malleable in two major ways: there was (1) a shift to learner-centered well-being…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Student Centered Learning, Well Being
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Ashmann, Scott; Franzen, Rebecca L. – Environmental Education Research, 2017
There is an urgent need for primary and secondary students to develop awareness, knowledge, attitudes, and an environmental ethic necessary to undertake environmental issues and problems. The need to adequately prepare teachers to teach about the environment, and the challenges the field of environmental education (EE) faces lead us to the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Environmental Education, Case Studies
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Kazemi, Elham; Waege, Kjersti – Mathematics Teacher Education and Development, 2015
Supporting prospective teachers to enact high quality instruction requires transforming their methods preparation. This study follows three teachers through a practice-based elementary methods course. Weekly class sessions took place in an elementary school. The setting afforded opportunities for prospective teachers to engage in cycles of…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Methods Courses, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Education
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Fayne, Harriet R. – Teacher Educator, 2014
This article describes a case study of an online literacy methods course offered at a small, midwestern university. Formal and informal instruments were used to assess students' backgrounds, interests, and dispositions. Archival course data were analyzed to examine interactions among content, course design, and student characteristics. Despite…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Online Courses, Methods Courses, Reading Instruction
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Bentley, Erinn – English Education, 2013
Within the field of writing teacher education, scholars and practitioners agree that effective writing instructors (at both the P--12 and postsecondary levels) are not simply cognizant of composition pedagogies, rhetorical theories, and their students' unique learning needs. Effective writing instructors also regularly…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction, Teacher Education
Little, Timothy H. – 1984
This case study describes the development of elementary social studies methods courses appropriate for two new alternative Michigan State University teacher education programs entitled "Learning Community" and "Multiple Perspectives." The "Learning Community" program prepares teachers to teach school subjects effectively while focusing upon the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Citizenship Education, Citizenship Responsibility, Course Content